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21 . 7. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 201 / 13

REGULATION (EEC) No 1970/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 20 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the COMMUNITIES, arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European relation to the Community currencies referred to Economic Community ; in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ 67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ Whereas it follows from applying the provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­ Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of sion that the levies at present in force should be new - Member States to the European Economic altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 13(5) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Article 1 Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­ The import levies to be charged on the products listed tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/ Regulations ; 67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, annexed to this Regulation. levies should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Article 2 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July on their effective parity ; 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 20 July. 1973.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(>) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (J) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5. (") OJ No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .

No L 201 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 7. 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 20 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

CCT heading Description of goods u. a. /ton No

10.01 A Common wheat, and mesiin 25-49 10.01 B Durum wheat 0-10 (*) («) 10.02 Rye 32-86 (5) 10.03 Barley 8-58 10.04 Oats 17-01 10 05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 10-94 ( 2)(3) 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 23-93 10.07 C Grain sorghum 19-19 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 («) 11.01 A Wheat or mesiin flour 54-45 11.01 B Rye flour 57-71 11.02 A I a Durum wheat groats and meal 0 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 57-60

(') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a. /metric t<3n . (') Where maize originating in the AASM and OCT is imported into the French Overseas Departments , the levy in reduced by 6 u.a. /metric ton . (a) Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into the Community, the levy is reduced by 1 u.a. /metric ton . (') Where wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a. /metric ton . (') The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1234/71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .